My reaction towards being selected for the mission would be a negative one. I would not want to go on a 10 year mission with people I did not know, being so far away from my friends and family with no way of communicating and I would not want to adapt to living on a completely different planet. I am close with my family and don’t like being away from them for extended periods of time. I also am hesitant towards change, especially such a large change in my life like going to mars.
Why you’ve been chosen
One agent of socialization that helped me prepare for this trip would be school (college specifically.) Because in school you are in a large group of people that have different backgrounds, different religions, different views and different …show more content…
Since there are only 100 people living on the colony it is more than likely that most of those people will not speak the same language. So we would run into the issue of how to effectively communicate with each other. One of the simpler answers would be just to learn new languages but then how do we decide which languages to learn and which ones we don’t need to learn. Let’s say that out of 100 cloners there was 75 different languages that were spoken. So logically the smartest course of action would be to only have 4 or 5 “official” languages. That way we would not have to learn 75 languages to communicate with different people. If we select the five most popular languages to learn: Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi and it could save a lot of time and resources. Those who are fluent in those languages could teach the others and once time goes by, if they want to, people could learn some of the other 70 languages. A person can still speak their native language all they want, but for the purpose of trying to communicate with the others they wold likely have to use one of the five languages. Another issue we might face is different values, what might be considered fine to one group of colonizers may be offensive to another group. For example, one part of the group may think that all the female colonizers should cook and clean because that maybe what they were taught to think through their family or through their culture. But the other half disagrees, they think that the cooking and cleaning should be a shared responsibility, because that is what they were taught to believe through their family or their
Why you’ve been chosen
One agent of socialization that helped me prepare for this trip would be school (college specifically.) Because in school you are in a large group of people that have different backgrounds, different religions, different views and different …show more content…
Since there are only 100 people living on the colony it is more than likely that most of those people will not speak the same language. So we would run into the issue of how to effectively communicate with each other. One of the simpler answers would be just to learn new languages but then how do we decide which languages to learn and which ones we don’t need to learn. Let’s say that out of 100 cloners there was 75 different languages that were spoken. So logically the smartest course of action would be to only have 4 or 5 “official” languages. That way we would not have to learn 75 languages to communicate with different people. If we select the five most popular languages to learn: Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi and it could save a lot of time and resources. Those who are fluent in those languages could teach the others and once time goes by, if they want to, people could learn some of the other 70 languages. A person can still speak their native language all they want, but for the purpose of trying to communicate with the others they wold likely have to use one of the five languages. Another issue we might face is different values, what might be considered fine to one group of colonizers may be offensive to another group. For example, one part of the group may think that all the female colonizers should cook and clean because that maybe what they were taught to think through their family or through their culture. But the other half disagrees, they think that the cooking and cleaning should be a shared responsibility, because that is what they were taught to believe through their family or their